Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Hammondstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hammondstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41996, -8.42744
- SMR number
- LI040-123----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In reclaimed pasture, a rectangular enclosure (LI040-125----) lies 100m to the E. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a rectangular-shaped earthwork on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2569) taken 03/11/1984. Faint trace of monument visible as an L-shaped cropmark from NE-E-S on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached BGE aerial photograph (Marked 271) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 23 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.